In 2020, Trump surrounded himself with a small team of people among whom included supposed infectious disease experts such as Anthony Fauci from the National Institutes of Health and Deborah Birx of the Centers for Disease Control.
- Fears of a virus from China had been rising for two months in the spring of 2020
- Trump had already closed travel from China but now his scientific advisers were urging him to do more: stop travel from Europe, UK, and Australia
- He made the announcement in a prime-time address, but misread the teleprompter and said that the travel ban would include goods.
CDC prepared an unusual flyer to hand out to reporters that day and send around the country
- It was only two pages.
- The loud part talked about washing hands and staying home from work. The quiet part was in very small print on the bottom of page two.
"Governors should close schools in communities that are near areas of community transmission," said the small print, "even if those areas are in neighboring states."
- The federal government was right here calling for all schools to be closed.
- What would happen to the kids? No one knew.
In addition, the document called for all elderly people in "nursing homes and retirement and long-term care facilities" to be forbidden from seeing family members for one to two years.
- Finally, the fine print had these astonishing words: "bars, restaurants, food courts, gyms, and other indoor and outdoor venues where groups of people congregate should be closed."
- This was one of the most egregious attacks on free enterprise and property rights in the history of humanity.
https://brownstone.org/articles/the-day-anthony-fauci-wrecked-american-freedom/
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